All Chapters of The Zombies Apocalypse Brought Me Back To My Fiancee : Chapter 1 - Chapter 5

"She's useless. If it wasn't for the benefits I get from her, I would've dumped her ages ago."Vanessa Sterling stopped with her key still in the lock.She had heard a lot of things in twenty-seven years. Gunfire. Interrogations. Her father's disappointed sigh, which somehow hurt more than both.But never this. Never from him.The bedroom door hung open a few inches. She pushed it with two fingers.Ethan Cole sat in the middle of the bed. Her bed. The one she had paid for, along with the sheets, the mattress and the rent on the room around it. He was shirtless and comfortable, one arm draped around a woman in a silk robe.The robe was hers too. Probably.The woman noticed Vanessa first. She didn't gasp. She didn't grab a blanket. She just looked annoyed.Then she turned to Ethan. "Who is this woman? What if she had caught us?"The room went very quiet.Ethan looked at the doorway. All the color left his face."Babe," he whispered, "she did."Vanessa stood there, and something inside h

"Well, well," Ethan said. "Look who finally came crawling back to Daddy."He was smirking. The red mark from yesterday still glowed faintly on his cheek, and somehow he still thought he was winning.Vanessa stepped out from behind the shelf with a pack of batteries in each hand."Hello, Ethan."Isabella turned. Her eyes went straight past Vanessa to the six overflowing carts behind her, and stayed there a beat too long. Counting. Calculating.Then she smiled. It was thin and glossy."Oh, this is her." She looked Vanessa up and down. "Abandoned by her family, then dumped by her boyfriend. It must be exhausting.""Ex-boyfriend," Vanessa said. Then she nodded. "But you're right. I did come crawling back."Ethan's smirk widened. He leaned on the cart like a man who had won a prize. "So you finally realized you can't survive without me?"Vanessa looked at him for a long moment. At the sunglasses. At the speaker. At the man who had once said "I love you" and "can I borrow forty dollars" in

Adrian Blackwood had laminated the rules.Vanessa stared at the sheet he'd handed her outside the east wing suite. Six numbered lines. Clean font. Glossy finish."You laminated it?""Read it.""Who laminates a list?""Someone who figures it's going to get thrown at a wall."HOUSE RULES.No leaving the east wing..No phone calls without supervision..No weapons..No unapproved visitors..No sneaking..No stealing from Adrian Blackwood."Rule three," Vanessa said, keeping her face blank. "Where'd that come from?"His eyes dropped to her left sleeve. Then came back up. "Just a rule.""And six? Seriously?""I added it in the car.""You wrote me my own rule. Aw.""Don't push it." He nodded at the door across the hall. "I'm right there. I keep it open. I don't sleep much.""Is that supposed to scare me?""It's just a fact." He turned to go. "Night, Trouble."His door swung shut. Not all the way. Just enough to make a point.Vanessa waited until his footsteps faded. Then she slid two fingers